A report from the Center for an Urban Future shows that poverty rates for New Yorkers ages 65 and older have reached 50% in ...

The report shows that many older adults, lacking adequate retirement income, are remaining in or returning to the workforce.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed to earmark $400 million to revitalize the capital of New York, where poverty rates are high ...

Twelve school districts in New York had poverty rates among ... The Syracuse City School District had the second-highest poverty rate in the state among the 680 school districts for which the ...

This metric relies on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which determines poverty rates by calculating the share of people in a state whose family or individual income falls below poverty thresholds.

Twelve school districts in New York had poverty rates among school-aged kids of 30% or more in 2023, according to new estimates from the Census Bureau.